Good weather helped the Jersey Shore recover in places such as Point Pleasant Beach (above) during its first summer after superstorm Sandy.

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Michael L. Diamond | @mdiamondapp

It is hard for a Jersey Shore tourism season to wind down when it never really wound up.

As the days of this summer slogged along, Eric Beyer, the owner of Beach House Classic Boardshop in Bay Head, decided to measure success not so much by sales, but by progress - the condition of the beach, the stores that reopened, the traffic that slowly returned to the Shore.

"In the beginning, I thought, wow, this is taking a long time to get done," said Beyer, standing in his shop last week. "But your notion of what's good changes." ...